We could start by complaining about the weather on Saturday, but in the grand view of Triple Crown events it wasn't that bad. Yes it was humid, yes it did sprinkle during the comp. And yes, it did rain (actually poured) for about an hour that evening. But the rain did do one great thing, it brought everyone under the pavilion a little closer (literally and figuratively). Between the oven mitts, the pull ups, the shitty pinch contest, and the arm wrestling I think there were p

One of the most influential and defining trips of my life took place over New Years between 2008 and 2009. 5 twenty somethings from a college town in the Southeast piled in a Pontiac mid-size SUV and headed west to our notion of the bouldering mecca. Problems such as Evilution and the Mandala graced the covers of climbing magazines those days, and as we drank beers in dingy Athens, GA bars, we imagined if we would be strong enough to climb on them. During this road trip, w

Even before I would have called myself a rock climber I had seen and heard a lot of similarities between the climbing and surfing community. . . But truth be told, I was too new to climbing and too far from surfing to understand it. I knew it started in Yosemite with Chouinard and his gang, traveling from Yosemite to South America climbing and surfing, climbing and surfing, and well, you know. But I’m from Alabama, and didn't understand what these sweaty vagabonds could possi